Egypt today- Changing the face of history1

this was an attempt to write things from my perspective while i was abroad about how we have changed and changing again the face of history with our revolution.. now back to cairo.. i have a different sense of things...

today:
strolled along the nile between the tanks in front of my house heading towards zamalek.. passing through the Radio-TV building and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.. felt different than before... i used to go for the same walk on daily basis to reach my work at the ministry.. here is the difference;
1. tanks around and we can walk in the middle of the road instead of walking in the middle of the road with cars because of the barracks and no real pavement to use for walking.
2. the air is different.. poeple are somehow more decent.
3. the young folks that are going in groups.. that, recently, a single female should try to avoid, just as a precaution... they are not hissing, harrassing, or anything.. they are walking in their own way to the point that they leave space for me to go through... without bothering me at all.
4. the young guys, are happy.. jolly.. they are going around and singing either songs for Egypt or for fun...
5.street sellers not harrassing anyone to buy anything from them .. (even when unfortunately, they doubt i am a foreigner.. still they stand there peacefully trying to sell their products)
6. overheard of course many chatting on political issues... passing by the MFA, someone said i am sure if Gamal Abd Elnasser was here, he wouldn't have tolerated what is going on to the Egyptian in Libya or even to the Libyans.. he would have interefered already to save the poeple from the ongoing massacres...

my reflections:

1. for the young people, who are not harrassing women anymore, who are walking around happy and singing... they are the same people, but they don't only have a new sense of pride but also, they have something bigger than their tiny problems to think about.. their country.. their achievement that led to kicking out a person they only knew as ruling the country since the day of their birth... somehow they have more self confidence that life will get better, and there is something really worth celebrating.. they feel they can make a change... they can have a say in the changes that may take place in their country...

2. astonishment hit me to see the faces who actually mentioned Nasser... they were not more than 25 or so.. they didn't even live Sadat's era to remember Nasser.. but funny enough.. many these days remember him... i don't think they would remember him without calling the disasters he brought up into.. but i believe 3 things that come to mind that make them remember him; the first, is the sense of pride... even if this generation did not live Nasser's era, but they saw how he used to speak.. the pride that he used to address the world in.. he was a leader.. the second is the corruption stories... the guy died and left his wife with his pension and living in their house... today, we are all looking forward to get back our stolen money from the family of Mubarak... one ruled Egypt for 18 yrs didn't steel from it.. one ruled for almost 30 yrs and we hear he and his family have 70 billion dollars and god knows.. how much will we be able to get back! the third, is the Arab Nationalism.. today, with all what we are in politically, socially, culturally.. everything... we still care about what is taking place with our neighbours.. we are so worried and crying for the libyans who are dying.. in reality.. how many of the 82 million Egypians know libyans in person, or have family members there.. 2 million.. 3... but when we are so concerned about what took place in Tunisia, then Libya and other places around the Arab world.. it reflects that there is a real bond there.. it doesn't matter how and when it was created.. but our common heritage showed that we care about them as much as they cheered for our revolution.. in brief.. the peoples of the Arab world don't hold grudges against each other, it was all about politics, leaders and power.. not the people..


i won't leave without mentioning what i have seen 2 days ago.. driving to the other part of the city... i really so young boys and girls.. teenagers, children and mothers cleaning the streets... they wanted to keep their district clean.. they even gave me and other cars small plastic bags to put our litter in.. i was so touched... very proud of them and proud of the Egyptians....

Long Live Egypt and God is our Protector.